The Victoria Government Gazette 1901 2 Vol 114flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, book, the victoria government gazette 1901 2 vol 114, the victoria government gazette 1901, the victoria government gazette

The Victoria Government Gazette 1901 3 Vol 115flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, book, the victoria government gazette 1901 3 vol 115, the victoria government gazette 1901, the victoria government gazette

The Victoria Government Gazette 1901 1 Vol 113flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, the victoria government gazette 1901 1 vol 113, the victoria government gazette, book

Robert Whitworth (1831 -1901), an England-born journalist and author worked with the government printer Ferdinand François Balliere in producing gazetteers of the Australian colonies. The first was a gazetteer of Victoria printed in 1865. This copied extract from that gazetter provides information about the fauna and flora and geology of Emerald and environs at an early period of European settlement in Victoria.This gazetter extract provides a picture of Emerald and environs as described by a settler in the mid-19th century.Four foolscap pages of information photocopied regarding the Dandenong Ranges and environs. Pages attached with a staple.On first page: ' EXTRACTS FROM BAILLIERE'S / VICTORIAN GAZETTER / 1865 / DANDENONG RANGE / EMERALD / FERN TREE GULLIES / LILYDALE / CORRANWARRABUL / DANDENONG CREEK'robert whitworth, balliere, gazetter, emerald, 1865